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Will AOL's Bosses Team Up
To Create Management Model?

Updated Jan. 18, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

THEY ARE AN ODD COUPLE , with little in common besides their large dowries.

Time Warner 's Gerald Levin, a lawyer by training, stuck to one company for 28 years, steadfastly climbing the rungs and mastering corporate politics. AOL 's Steve Case quit two corporate jobs he found boring by the time he was 27 and launched his own company in a fledgling industry. Eight years ago, when Mr. Levin was involved in a boardroom coup that led to him becoming CEO of media giant Time Warner, Mr. Case was taking a still shaky AOL public.